Use horizontal back and forth strokes for even application. Using your 3/4" flat brush paint the entire middle section of your canvas with the desaturated teal color.The reason we want to do this with the ocean is colors appear more grey and lose their intensity in dim lighting such as a sunset. tone down the vibrancy of a color) just mix in it's complementary. Mix a desaturated teal color for your ocean by adding a little bit of yellow (blue's complementary color) to the teal.Fill in the sun with your pale yellow mixture.Take a small round object and trace a half a circle at the horizon (which will be your set setting half above and half below the horizon line). You want a pastel like yellow color so that it contrasts against the already yellow portion in the sunset. Mix a pale yellow color using 4 parts titanium white and 1 part yellow.Paint the yellow all the way down to the horizon pencil line. Finally pick up some cadmium yellow paint and blend the yellow into the red with the blending technique and horizontal stroke.Blend the red into the pink with the same horizontal stroke and blending technique. Clean off your brush and then pick up some cadmium red paint.See sunset blending tips section above to blend the 2 colors. Using horizontal strokes paint the pink down 1 inch from where you left off with the blue.
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